Re: ACCESS, NT SQL server and Sybase SQL Server
Date: 24 Feb 1994 06:19:09 -0500
Message-ID: <2ki2fd$dd4_at_access1.digex.net>
bmyers_at_fmrco.COM (Brad Myers) writes:
>In article <2kbc61$nr_at_nntp2.Stanford.EDU> weng_at_leland.Stanford.EDU (Chi-Cheong Weng) writes:
>>Is NT SQL server and Microsoft SQL server the same thing ?
>>
>Yes.
>SQL Server is the name of the relational database engine.
>Sybase (the company) is the creator of the original SQL Server.
>Microsoft has the source-code rights (or something similar) which they used
>to create SQL Server for NT.
This is not completely accurate. Microsoft rewrote Sybase SQL SErver
extensively. This results in having version 4.2 available from Microsoft
but 4.9 from Sybase, for instance, but Microsoft offers nice Windows
administration tools (big surprise!) not available with Sybase.
Microsoft's relationship with Sybsae is deteriorating, partly based on
pricing.